Faculty

Affiliate Faculty

Nancy Amidei, MSW; Senior Lecturer, School of Social Work
Director, the Civic Engagement Project; Board Vice-Chair, OMB Watch (Washington, DC).
Member: National Association of Social Workers Legislative Action Committee.
Affiliations: Children's Budget Coalition; Washington Tax Fairness Coalition; MedRest Respite Care for Homeless Youth.
Research interest: poverty, hunger & homelessness, non-profit advocacy, increasing civic participation, and tax reform

Susan Astley, PhD; Professor, Epidemiology
Director, Washington State FAS Diagnostic & Prevention Network.
Research interests: Primary and secondary prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders through screening, diagnosis, intervention, surveillance, training, and research.

Laura-Mae Baldwin, MD, MPH; Professor, Family Medicine
Research interests: Access to care for underserved communities, rural health, health workforce, Native American health, administrative database linkage, perinatal care.

Betty Bekemeier, PhD, MPH; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services
Research interests: Effective public health practice system development, public health financing, management of public health practice, public health nursing leadership, public health workforce development issues.

Forrest Bennett, MD; Professor, Pediatrics, Clinical Training Unit
Director, High Risk Infant Follow-up Clinic; Director, Pediatric Medical Student Program; Director, Pediatric WWAMI Program
Research interests: developmental disabilities and children with special health care needs.

Noel Chrisman, PhD, MPH; Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Adjunct Professor: Health Services; Anthropology; Family Medicine.
Affiliations: Seattle Partners for Healthy Communities; REACH 2010.
Research interests: cultural competence; community-based participatory research.

Frederick A. Connell, MD, MPH; Associate Dean, School of Public Health
Professor of Health Services; and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics
Affiliations: Child Health Institute
Research interests: community assessment; Medicaid; maternal and child health policy; pediatric services; measurement of health status and quality of life; early life as predictors of health status.

James Gaudino, MD; Clinical Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Immunization Medical Epidemiologist, Oregon Dept. of Human Services Immunization Program
Affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Div. of Reproductive Health; Oregon Health Sciences University Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.
Research interests: socioeconomic and behavioral determinants associated with adverse health outcomes; racial/ethnic health and health care disparities; genetic and pathologic mechanisms associated with socio-demographic health risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes; evaluating interventions and treatments for poor MCH outcomes; evaluating prevention, screening and treatment programs among at-risk populations; evidence-based clinical and public health practices; fetal and perinatal risk factors associated with pediatric and adult diseases.

Maxine Hayes; Washington State Health Officer
Maxine.Hayes@DOH.WA.GOV; 360-236-4018
Affiliations: Clinical Professor, Departments of Health Services and Pediatrics
Research interests: health disparities; closing the gaps; chronic disease prevention and its links to MCH.

Victoria Holt, PhD, MPH; Professor, Epidemiology, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center
Adjunct Professor, Health Services; Member (Joint), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Research interests: intimate partner violence; Endometriosis; women's reproductive health.

Donna Johnson, PhD; Associate Professor, Nutrition
Associate Director, Center for Public Health Nutrition
Research interests: public health nutrition; evaluation; effects of policies and environments on nutrition behaviors.

Brian Johnston, MD, MPH; Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Research interests: injury prevention, implementation research.

Rita Mangione-Smith, MD, MPH; Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Research interests: Quality of health care assessment, quality improvement intervention evaluation, physician-parent communication.

John McLaughlin, MD; Professor, Pediatrics
Director, Clinical Training Unit, CHDD
Director, Neurodevelopmental Program, CHRMC
Research interests: cerebral palsy; spasticity management; health care services for children with disabilities; interdisciplinary health care; training of health professionals.

Mary Anne Mercer, DrPH; Senior Lecturer, Health Services
Deputy Director, Health Alliance International
Research interests: MCH in developing countries; operations research for MCH services; community response to HIV/AIDS in Africa; mechanisms for community participation; health effects of globalization.

Peter Milgrom, DDS; Professor of Dental Public Health Sciences
Director of the Northwest/Alaska Center to Reduce Oral Health Disparities
Director of the Dental Fears Research Clinic
Research interests: effects of xylitol on dental caries; behavioral and pharmacological management of fearful and phobic dental patients; access to dental care for children from low-income families.

Wendy Mouradian, MD; Professor of Pediatric Dentistry
Associate Dean for Regional Affairs and Curriculum, School of Dentistry
Research interests: Oral health in MCH populations; education of medical and dental professionals in oral care of MCH populations; quality of life in children with craniofacial conditions; ethical issues in health policy.

Michael Neufeld, MD; Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology
Research interests: evaluation and improvement of the neurodevelopmental outcome of preterm infants; infection and/or inflammation and its impact on neurodevelopmental outcome; retinopathy of prematurity; cerebral palsy.

Greg Redding, MD ; Professor, Pediatrics
Head, Pulmonary Division, Pediatric Pulmonary Center
Affiliations: Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center: Chief, Chest Clinic; Director, Sleep Program.
Research interests: pediatric pulmonary and respiratory disease and treatment; respiratory syncytial virus; community and inpatient management of asthma.

Christine Riedy, PhD, MPH; Research Associate Professor, Dental Public Health Sciences
Adjunct Research Associate Professor, Health Services
Research interests: socio-cultural oral health disparity; prevention in oral health; prevalence and transmission of cariogenic bacteria in young children.

Fred Rivara, MD; Professor, Pediatrics
Head, General Pediatrics Division; Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
Research interests: pediatric injury prevention, intimate partner violence, transportation related injury, firearm violence and injury, evidence-based medicine, trauma systems.

J'May Rivara, MSS, LICSW; Lecturer, Social Work
Practicum Co-Director, School of Social Work
Research interests: health care; assessment in spectrum of health care settings; primary care; childhood injury; research in childhood head injury.

James Stout, MD, MPH; Professor, Pediatrics
Adjunct Professor, Health Services
Affiliations: Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center; Child Health Institute; National Initiative on Children's Healthcare Quality; QI Partners.
Research interests: childhood asthma health services research, asthma quality improvement, child healthcare quality improvement, development and evaluation of computer-based training tools.

Elaine Thompson, PhD, RN; Professor, Psychosocial and Community Health Nursing
Principal Investigator, Reconnecting Youth Prevention Research Program
Research interests: intervention and evaluation research; advanced multivariate analytic techniques; measurement and instrument development; testing intervention theory; suicide prevention and school dropout prevention research.